Links relating to the legality of reverse engineering

[cboles]

Chilling Effects Reverse Engineering FAQ
The Law & Economics of Reverse Engineeering
Multiple links to news regarding reverse engineering and the DMCA

[Imp Guerra]

Investigating the device that you have paid for is obviously legal.
Despite of whether it is a car, a PC or a metal hammer.
I have a right to burn my car, crash and smash it to floatsam and jetsam.
Why i cannot look what is inside the "black box" of silver ECU

If it is illegal then how call the fact of selling a couple of bites through the j1962 OBD-II socket for the 1000$ ?

And they ask a payment from every reflashed ECU!

May be they want all the cars to pay them for the atmosphere air that feed our engines?

[BillMarkviii]

The DMCA has clear cutouts for reverse engineering to ensure compatibility and interoperability. Running code from an ECU you own on a modified engine you own which requires modifications clearly falls under the interoperability exception in the DMCA.